Lot 166
Bindings
Large collection of library sets, mainly 19th century
Auction: Other Properties | Wed 25 February from 10am | Lots 63 to 255
Description
all 8vo (various dimensions), including:
Boswell, James. The Life of Samuel Johnson, including a Journal of his Tour the Hebrides … New Edition. London: John Murray, 1839. 10 volumes, c.1900 crushed half morocco by Zaehnsdorf, spines richly gilt in compartments, engraved frontispieces, vignette title-pages and plates, bookplates;
Craik, George Lillie. The Romance of the Peerage, or Curiosities of Family History. London: Chapman and Hall, 1848-50. 4 volumes, c.1900 crushed blue half morocco by Root & Son, engraved frontispieces;
Landor, Walter Savage. Imaginary Conversations. London: J. M. Dent & Co., 1891. 6 volumes, contemporary crushed green half morocco for John Bumpus, engraved bookplates of Annie Cowdray;
Fielding, Henry. The Works. Edited by George Saintsbury. London: J. M. Dent & Co., 1893-1902. 12 volumes, later green half calf gilt, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, photogravure frontispieces;
Disraeli, Benjamin. [The novels]. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., c.1875. 10 volumes, contemporary red half calf, spines gilt in compartments;
Martin, Benjamin Ellis & Charlotte M. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1899. 2 volumes, contemporary red half morocco gilt, top edges gilt;
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. The Poetical [-Prose] Works … Edited … by Richard Herne Shepherd. London: Chatto and Windus, 1888. 2 works in 5 volumes, contemporary blue half calf by Tout;
Homer. The Iliad [and:] Odyssey. Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cullen Bryant. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, c.1900. 2 works in 4 volumes, contemporary tan half calf, gilt spines;
Henderson, G. F. R. Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1903. 2 volumes, contemporary red half calf;
Smith, Justin H. The Troubadours at Home. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1899. 2 volumes, contemporary crushed green half morocco, top edges gilt, others untrimmed;
Cook, Theodore Andrea. Old Provenance. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905. 2 volumes, contemporary crushed green half morocco, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, spines tanned;
Shorthouse, J. Henry. John Inglesant. A Romance. London: Macmillan and Co., 1881. 2 volumes, contemporary crushed purple half morocco, top edges gilt;
Fisher, Sydney George. Men, Women and Manners in Colonial Times. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1898. 2 volumes, contemporary citron half morocco, spines and top edges gilt;
Symonds, John Addington. The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1901. 2 volumes, contemporary crushed reddish-brown half morocco for Hatchards;
and 16 others, including Dickens (2 sets), Boswell's Life of Johnson (2 sets), Shakespeare, Mommsen, etc. (208)